page_title: Curitiba
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Curitiba / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Passeio Público, Curitiba, Brasil. Parque mais antigo de Curitiba, inaugurado em 02 de maio de 1886 e localizado em sua área central. (Passeio Público, the oldest park in Curitiba, Brasil. It was founded in 1886).
context_page_description: Curitiba is the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The city's population was 1,879,355 as of 2015, making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area comprises 26 municipalities with a total population of over 3.2 million, making it the seventh most populous metropolitan area in the country.
  The city sits on a plateau at 932 metres above sea level. It is located west of the seaport of Paranaguá and is served by the Afonso Pena International and Bacacheri airports. Curitiba is an important cultural, political, and economic center in Latin America and hosts the Federal University of Paraná, established in 1912.
  In the 1700s Curitiba's favorable location between cattle-breeding countryside and marketplaces led to a successful cattle trade and the city's first major expansion. Later, between 1850 and 1950, it grew due to logging and agricultural expansion in Paraná State. In the 1850s, waves of European immigrants arrived in Curitiba, mainly Germans, Italians, Poles and Ukrainians, contributing to the city's economic and cultural development.
caption: Passeio Público.
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